LuvSound is pleased to announce this carefully sculpted ep from Berlin's Stephane Leonard. TRi is all about connecting loose ends. Assembled with self coded max-msp software, a microphone and a small selection of external sound sources, Leonard's music compels careful, intimate listening - and sounds draw constellations of connections in a starry sonic space.
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one trails 2 10:27
one trockenschwimmen 5:39
one kreisstueck 3:07
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biography
Stephane Leonard was born in 1979 in Berlin, Germany. After beginning his studies in philosophy and art-history in 2001 at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, he studied Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Bremen for 4 years. Being a student of the artist Paco Knöller, a former student of well known german artist Joseph Beuys, Stephane's focus has been drawn into various directions of artistic expression. By trying to experience the arts from various different perspectives he has created large scale drawings and paintings, illustrations for cd covers, numerous short & experimental films/videos as well as music videos. As a musician and composer, Stephane has written and recorded music since 1995. The different ways of expressions and art forms are mutually conditional and inspiring the influence of one another.
Stephane Leonard is actively involved in the contemporary art and music scene in Berlin and Bremen, performing with improv groups JuliJuni, Leo Mars Ensemble and plastic doll. He also collaborates with various bands, video artists, filmmakers and solo performers (dis.playce, Seidenmatt, Marcel Türkowsky, Claudio Pfeifer). Moreover he is a member of the naiv super artist collective that publishes and promotes modern composers, adventurous musicians and the naivsuperFilm collective.
His work has been shown in exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Neubrandenburg, Vienna, Zürich, Massachusetts and Bangkok. Stephane lives and works in Berlin, Brooklyn and Bremen.
[stephane leonard / naiv super]